Comprehensive Description

The catfish genus Ompok Lacepede , 1803 ZBK , refers to medium-sized silurid fishes found in inland waters throughout South and Southeast Asia. Bornbusch (1995) showed that OmpokZBK , as currently understood, is probably paraphyletic. However, given the weak support for the monophyly of his clades, the taxonomy of OmpokZBK is not stable enough to reassign any of the existing species to other genera.